The mobile congestion crisis infographic

With more and more people getting smartphones and tablets, networks are facing problem how to handle all that traffic. At the moment, smartphones represent 12% of total global handsets in use, while making for over 82% of total global handset traffic. And it’s just going to be worse:

Aggregate smartphone traffic in 2016 will be 50 times greater than it was in 2011.

Tablets generate 3.4x more mobile traffic than smartphones.

Mobile connected tablets will generate almost as much traffic in 2016 as the entire global mobile network in 2012.

There will be 8.6x more mobile data traffic in 2016 compared to 2012 – an astounding 71% CAGR.

The key to solve this problem is optimization, as you’re about to find out from the following infographic prepared by the good folks of Dialogic. Here comes…